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> Personal site of Vedansh Danot, a creative engineer and full-stack developer from Indore, India. Writing about web engineering, design systems, AI products, performance optimization, and building a tech career.
## Blog Posts
- [Why Interfaces Should Feel Alive — Not Just Look Good](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/interfaces-feel-alive): The physics and timing principles behind UI animation — easing, duration, and continuity — that separate interfaces that look good from ones that feel alive.
- [The Quiet Revolution: How LLMs Are Changing What Engineers Actually Do](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/llms-changing-engineering): How LLMs have shifted the engineering bottleneck from writing code to thinking about systems — and which skills now compound as a result.
- [Building APIs That Don't Apologize for Themselves](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/apis-that-dont-apologize): A framework for designing REST APIs that are predictable, treat errors as first-class citizens, version from day one, and document automatically.
- [Founding Kalki: The Part No One Puts on the Landing Page](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/founding-kalki): The real story of starting a creative agency at 19 — early pricing mistakes, co-founder conflicts, and the two things that actually made it work.
- [60fps or Nothing: GSAP Animation Without the Jank](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/gsap-60fps): How browser compositing works, why only transform/opacity are safe to animate, and GSAP-specific techniques for maintaining smooth 60fps animations on low-end devices.
- [The Portfolio Lie: Why Most Developer Portfolios Fail (And Mine Almost Did)](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/portfolio-lie): Why developer portfolios fail at differentiation — and why three projects shown with depth beats twelve projects shown as screenshots every time.
- [RAG vs Fine-Tuning: When to Use Which (An Honest Answer)](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/rag-vs-fine-tuning): A practical decision tree for choosing between retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning, based on six AI-powered products built from scratch.
- [Glassmorphism Is Not Dead — You're Just Using It Wrong](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/glassmorphism-not-dead): The correct CSS recipe and usage rules for frosted glass effects that communicate spatial hierarchy — not just visual trend.
- [Python Async Is Not Magic — Here's What It Actually Does](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/python-async): Event loops, coroutines, and cooperative multitasking in Python asyncio explained — including when async helps (I/O-bound) and when it does not (CPU-bound).
- [Pricing Your Work as a Freelance Engineer: Stop Hourly. Go Value.](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/pricing-value-based): Why hourly rates create perverse incentives for freelancers, how to transition to value-based fixed pricing, and what happened when two clients pushed back.
- [How I Cut My Web App's LCP from 4.8s to 0.9s (Real World, No Tricks)](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/lcp-from-4-8s-to-0-9s): A production Next.js e-commerce performance audit — the three root causes (hero image, JS bundle, render-blocking scripts) and the exact fixes that moved every metric.
- [The 1-Year Review: What Building in Public Actually Did For My Career](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog/building-in-public-1-year): Honest numbers after 12 months documenting work publicly — followers, revenue, time cost, what worked, and what to do differently.
## Work Projects
- [VENOM](https://www.vedanshh.dev/work/venom-ai): Voice-first AI desktop assistant — real-time STT→AI→TTS pipeline with animated UI feedback and multi-model support.
- [Kalki](https://www.vedanshh.dev/work/kalki-studio): Brand & product design agency — forging bold identities that don't go unnoticed.
- [Melody](https://www.vedanshh.dev/work/melody-fetch): Converts any public Spotify playlist into a downloadable ZIP of MP3s via YouTube matching — with real-time WebSocket progress tracking.
- [Gami](https://www.vedanshh.dev/work/gami-fy): A desktop productivity tracker that turns work sessions into an RPG — earn XP per focused minute, level up, and visualize app usage via a floating Electron widget.
- [AI](https://www.vedanshh.dev/work/ai-auditor): Scrapes businesses from Google Maps, audits websites for SEO / UX / performance, and auto-generates AI-powered PDF reports for clients.
- [Netflix](https://www.vedanshh.dev/work/netflix-proposal): Cinematic birthday surprise site — profile picker, memory gallery, love letter reveal, rolling credits & easter eggs. Config-driven.
- [Portfolio](https://www.vedanshh.dev/work/portfolio-2026): This very portfolio — a high-fidelity, animation-rich website built entirely with vanilla JS, Three.js, GSAP, and Lenis smooth scroll.
## About
Vedansh Danot is a creative engineer and full-stack developer based in Indore, India. Founder of Kalki Studio, a creative design agency. This blog covers web engineering (React, Next.js, Python, GSAP), AI/ML product development, design systems, performance optimization, and freelance career advice.
## Pages
- [Portfolio](https://www.vedanshh.dev/): Home — projects, skills, and contact
- [About](https://www.vedanshh.dev/about): Background, story, and what Vedansh is currently building
- [Work](https://www.vedanshh.dev/work): Case studies of selected client and personal projects
- [Blog](https://www.vedanshh.dev/blog): All 12 published articles
## Contact
Email: garvgupta12006@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/py-kalki
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vedanshdanot
